World asking me to reactivate my modules.

[wess24m]

So today I started up world and it asked me to reauthorize my modules. When you click yes it says that they are already authorized, then asks you if you'd like to reauthenticate. Multiple people were having this issue as well as having trouble connecting to multiplayer today.

 

Anybody else having this issue? I know it affected at least 4 other people in my group.

[EtherealN]

So today I started up world and it asked me to reauthorize my modules. When you click yes it says that they are already authorized, then asks you if you'd like to reauthenticate.

 

Looks like the following happened:

 

1) Registry entry wasn't detected.

2) Protection system performs activation check, like this:

2a) Take hardware hash on the machine.

2b) Take serial number.

2c) Send to server.

3) Server recognizes hardware hash and says "already activated"

4) Protection system says "oh, right" and at this point all is well, but just to be safe it asks you if you really-really want to activate even though you are already activated.

 

At this point, all you should have to do is press esc, exit or whatever and the game will work as normal.

[wess24m]

Sounds about right, just wondering why it was so widespread, that day was the first and last time it happened and the fact that it affected multiple people I fly with was indicative of some sort of protection server issue.

[EtherealN]

I sort of doubt it since, AFAIK, it doesn't even talk to the server if it finds an activation entry locally on the machine. It is only when it does not find an activation that it needs to talk to the activation server. (Otherwise, simply disconnecting the computer from the internet would render activation unusuable, which obviously is not the case.)

 

Best guess might be that you have some other software in common that can reach the registry (one candidate: windows itself) and there was something that triggered that to go after the registry (might simply be some update applied on windows itself).